River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-10
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

Mother Angelina. died suddenly at
Notre Dame, Ind, at St Mary's Academy
March 4. She was % years of age and a
niece of Thomas Ewing, secretary of state
under President Harrison. and was educated
with her cousin. now the wife of Gen. Sher-
man. at Georgetown convent. She was also
a cousin OF James G.. Blaine. both being
born in the same house in Brownsville, Pa,
and both passing their earlier years together.
During her W ashington Ii Mother Angela,
then Miss Fluvia Gillespie, was a much
cOurted belle, noted for her learning, and
when - years old she left society and joined
the order of the Sisters of the Holy Cross,
aud coming 10 South Bend, vi here Very Rev.
Father SOrnn had already founded the Uni
versIty Of NOtre Dame, she established st.
Mary's Academy. and under her admins
tratiOn il became one Of the most noted edu-
catiOnal institutions in the country.
Two men aged 80 and 60 years were
run over by Fort Wayne passenger train,
at North Robinson, near Bucyrus, Ohio, on
the 26th ult. They were upon the main
track waiting for freight 10 pass so that
they could rearch depot and did not hear
the passenger train until il was within p
feet of them. when they sank paralyzed on
the track, and the train, rushing at
6O miles an hour. crushed anc man
gled them, causing instant death.
Mrs. Ruth II. Harmon. mother of
Mrs Folsom and grandmother of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, died at jackson, Mich,
March g. She was born in 1893 and mar
ried in ls:S Mrs Folsom was with her
during her last illness Her burial will
take place at Batavia, y. V, ald President
and Mrs. Cleveland will attenC the funeral
Gov. Wilson of West Virginia has
issued a proclamation reconvening the
State legislature on the third Wednesday
Of April. TO make appropriations for the
expenses of the state government. Ii is
also believed there viii be an election for
United States Senator.
Gov. Perry of Florida, has appointed
Gen. J. J. Finley of Ocala, TO succeed
Senator &. ". Jones whose term expires
March 4, in the United States Senate. Gen.
Finley has been on the State Supreme
court bench, and served one term in the
lower house of congress
Two tiremen upon 80 foot ladder
at the Windsor Folding Bed factory
Chicago, by the breaking of the ladder
were thrown to the ground and terribly
crushed. They had gone up with hose To
fourth story window. The damage by
fire was 5000.
The death Is announced of Exon
gresham Edward Breitung, of Negaunee,
Mich. at Eastman. Ca, of pneumonia. Mr..
Breitung was a pioneer of the upper PENN
sula. where he lived for the past % years,
representing his district in the 4Sth con-
gress.
At LOndOnville. Ohio. March l, at
the crossing of the Fort Wayne road, a
passenger train running forty miles an hour
struck "A wagon driven by the son of a
wealthy farmer. killing the young man aud
the horses instantly.
The funeral of Mother Angela late
Superior Of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of
the United States. took place on Sunday at
South Bend, Ind, Bishop GilmOur. of Cleve-
land, Ohio, prOnOuncing the funeral ser
vice.
The business failures during the last
seven days, according to r. G. Dunn q Co,
number for the United States, 2O3, and Tor
Canada, &c, total -, against 2O9 last week
and 24O for the corresponding week of last
year.
The state supreme court of Missouri
rendered a decision that the prisoners con-
fined in the peuitentiary at jefferson City
cannot be taken therefrom to testify IN
criminal courts.
Gov. Wilson. of West Virginia, has
rendered the United States senatorship of
the state TO ID. B. Lucas,of Jefferson county.
A boiler in single mill at Alpena,
Mich, blew up Tuesday, killing two men
and bad'1 scalding another.